[Okfn-irl] January meetup, Cork City, Open Education... Happy 2014!

[Denis Parfenov]

Hi all,

Tomorrow, on Thursday (6:30pm 23rd January 2014) Open Data Ireland, with 
support of Open Knowledge Foundation - Ireland <http://irl.okfn.org> and Department 
of Computer Science, UCC, <http://www.ucc.ie/en/compsci/> will be running 
our 12th community meet-up <https://ti.to/open-data-ireland/meetup-12> at 
the University College Cork. As many of you know, our community organised 
meet-ups bring together people who are passionate about sharing, learning, 
using and progressing Open Data in Ireland.

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This particular meetup will focus on open education and involve preparation 
for a booksprint to take place on International Open Day Hackathon<http://opendataday.org>, 
Saturday, 22nd February<https://ti.to/open-data-ireland/international-open-data-day-in-ireland---feb-22nd>, 
which we are co-organising with 'Code for Ireland'.  Booksprint will be one 
of the projects you can contribute to on the day. The topic of the book has 
yet to be decided but is likely to a resource specifically aimed at 
children and for use by educators to aid teaching of computing. It is 
anticipated that this resource will be passed on to all teachers in Ireland 
to support the current curriculum.

Speakers in the room, tomorrow, Thurs 23d January (*1.07, Western Gateway 
Building, UCC, Cork, Ireland*):

   - Denis Parfenov <https://twitter.com/prfnv> - OKF Ireland
   - Darius Whelan <https://twitter.com/dariuswirl> - Creative Commons 
   Ireland
   
Through the powers of technology (G+), virtual speakers include: 
<https://twitter.com/JoonasD6>

   - Joonas Mäkinen <https://twitter.com/JoonasD6> - science and culture 
   enthusiast and human rights activist 
   - Marieke Guy <https://twitter.com/mariekeguy> - OKF Open Education 
   Working Group

*Topics include:*

   - Open Educational Resources, teaching, learning, and research materials 
   in any medium that reside in the public domain.
   - Booksprint: Guidebook for Computing (Primary) and Computer Science 
   (Secondary) Handbook 
   - Continuing Booksprint on the Open Knowledge Foundation Open Education 
   Handbook 
   - Overview of a group of Finnish teachers authored an open maths 
   textbook in a weekend <https://creativecommons.org/tag/finland> 
   - Updating opendata.ie and Ireland’s Open Data repository CKAN (
   Data.OpenData.ie)
   - Junior Cert reform and opportunities for Booksprint deliverables can 
   get NCCA approval and reform Ireland’s secondary education system.

If you are interested in attending the meet-up you can register on the meetup 
page <https://ti.to/open-data-ireland/meetup-12>. See you there!

Best regards,

Denis 

Denis Parfenov // OKF Ambassador for Ireland // m: +353863850044 // @prfnv<https://twitter.com/prfnv> 
[.org <http://prfnv.org/>] // @okfIRL <https://twitter.com/OKFirl> [.org<http://okfirl.org>
]
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On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:32:26 AM UTC, Denis Parfenov wrote:
>
>
> Hello and Happy New Year!
>
> It's 2014 and it is time to make things happen again. 
>
> Live in Cork? Open Data Ireland Meetup #12 is coming to you and this time 
> we are planning to discuss and lay out a virtual foundation for ‘Open 
> Education’: 
> http://irl.okfn.org/2013/12/20/invitation-meetup-12-cork-open-data-and-education-in-ireland/. 
> The event will take place on Thursday, 23d January 2013. Registration page: 
> https://tito.io/open-data-ireland/meetup-12.
>
> **HELP NEEDED: we still do not have a venue confirmed for this event and 
> would be thankful for support of Cork open data community with identifying 
> and booking a suitable venue.**
>
> Up next in February everybody will have a chance to participate in the 1st 
> ever Ireland Booksprint! To mark the International Open Data Day<http://opendataday.org/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>(Sat, 22nd February 2013) we aim to initiate the development of educational 
> material for ‘Introduction to Programming’. 
>
> Venue: TBC
>
> Registration page: 
> https://tito.io/open-data-ireland/international-open-data-day-in-ireland---feb-22nd
>
> New Year’s resolution: No excuses :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Denis
> @prfnv
> -- 
>
> *"Open data is the public library of the 21st century"* *http://www.opendata.ie/ 
> <http://www.opendata.ie/>*
>  
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